Bourbakism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French bourbakisme, equivalent to Bourbaki +‎ -ism, after the fictional Nicolas Bourbaki, collective pseudonym for a group of French mathematicians.

Noun[edit]

Bourbakism (uncountable)

  1. A 20th-century French movement aiming to found all of mathematics on set theory.
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